Matthew Cantirino

What is the Supreme Court’s overarching thinking on the constitutionality of pro-life legislation? Does it even exist, or is it more of a tendency which ebbs and flows over time? It’s a fair question given the Court’s maintenance of Roe and Casey alongside limiting decisions like . . . . Continue Reading »

A Startling Thesis on Islam’s Origins Malise Ruthven,  Wall Street Journal I’d Rather Be a Catholic Than Be Respectable Catherine Pepinster,  The Guardian Archdiocese Rebukes Georgetown over Sebelius Speech Dan Merica,  CNN Marilynne Robinson on Democracy, Religion, and . . . . Continue Reading »

Last week the American Enterprise Institute’s Eric Kaufmann posted an article dissecting global demographic trends with an eye toward birthrates among the religious and the secular. His conclusion? The future is likely to be far more religious than many imagine—and not just because of . . . . Continue Reading »

An Update on the Anglican Ordinariates Rocco Palmo,  Whispers in the Loggia In the Beginning Was “Power”? Anne Barbeau Gardinier,  New Oxford Review Inside Turkey’s Secretive ‘Gulen’ Movement Justin Vela,  The Atlantic Summarizing Obama’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Kenneth B. MacIntyre launches what can only be called an, er, exoteric assault over at The American Conservative , one which may portend an internecine debate: he blasts  Leo Strauss and his followers as ideological “false prophets.” Taking Paul Gottfried’s recent biography . . . . Continue Reading »

Readers may be interested in perusing the text of Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s remarks to the graduating class at the Catholic University of America, delivered this past weekend. In what was likely one of the more important addresses of this commencement season (and anyone who’s . . . . Continue Reading »

When Catholics Were Cristeros Nicholas G. Hahn, RealClearReligion Religion, Reality Television Influence American Baby Names Stephen Ohlemacher,  Associated Press How Do We Develop the Cultural Sensibilities of Children? David Clayton, New Liturgical Movement First Italian March for Life . . . . Continue Reading »

Over the weekend, a prominent psychologist argued in the New York Times that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, alterations to which have sparked numerous bitter and divisive controversies over the past few decades, has outlived its usefulness and should no longer be taken as the definitive . . . . Continue Reading »

Those who pine for the importation of European-style “hate speech” restrictions to the United States but have always found the proposal blunted by American courts’ almost-total deference to the First Amendment have an ally in Jeremy Waldron, a Harvard legal theorist. His argument, . . . . Continue Reading »

Just Sayin’ Thomas Howard, Touchstone Romney’s Speech to Evangelicals Ramps Up Cultural Rhetoric Paul Mirengoff, Powerline The Problem of Selective Christianity Msgr. Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington Blog A Generation Hobbled by College Debt Andrew Martin and Andrew W. Lehren, . . . . Continue Reading »